BORDER CROSSING

LONDON (FNS) -- The food-retailing industry is increasingly consolidating on a global scale, as evidenced by SN's second annual list of the world's Top 25 food retailers.Of the 25 companies, 20 have operations outside their native countries, including units that stretch from China to Argentina. The companies that don't are all American, and at the moment prefer to focus on the expansion opportunities

LONDON (FNS) -- The food-retailing industry is increasingly consolidating on a global scale, as evidenced by SN's second annual list of the world's Top 25 food retailers.

Of the 25 companies, 20 have operations outside their native countries, including units that stretch from China to Argentina. The companies that don't are all American, and at the moment prefer to focus on the expansion opportunities in the United States rather than look overseas. But even those companies one day wil